So I found your
essays. Do you realize how much more timely they are
now, than when you published them?

Most obviously, as you
noted last Easter, are Powell`s reservations on the
price of domination. His comment (and yours) resonate
frighteningly:

“After
eleven Mau Mau terrorists were beaten to death in the
Hola camp in Kenya in 1959…Powell said in a famous
speech: `I would say it is a fearful doctrine, which
must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it,
to stand in judgment on a fellow human being and say,
`Because he was such-and-such, therefore the
consequences which would otherwise flow from his death
shall not flow.` “

“My [PB]
emphasis…looking at
alarming developments like the Homeland Security
Act, I wonder about that recoil upon our heads.”